Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento

I was raised during the hot girls, art journalists, rom-coms of the early 2000s.

And of all of those, you know, 13 Going on 30, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Devil Wears Prada was my favorite.

And I think by far the best because it's less focused on the romance than it is on the actual career and the work.

Yeah, it's not even really a rom-com, I would argue.

Yeah, I agree.

I don't think it's really a rom-com.

I was very scared about the prospect of a sequel because to me, the first was just so perfect.

And in general, I'm just opposed to like the sequel reboot era of pop culture that we're in right now.

I think 99% of the time they're not necessary.

However, I do think this one, A, added interesting things to a movie about journalists and about the current state of the industry and about the current state of tech.

I also think that they stayed very true to the characters in a way that oftentimes reboots or sequels do not.

Like I think the Sex and the City reboot sort of fell into this pitfall of changing the characters that people knew and loved.

I think this movie helped the characters grow while they still felt true to the characters that we fell in love with 20 years ago.

Yes.

I do think part of it is just how much our culture and the things you can do at work have changed and how they try to reflect that through the character of Miranda.

But I do think, Linda, to your point, a lot of this movie was shenanigans.

I felt like there were things that really hit home for me, and yet they were mostly glossed over in favor of like...

A 20 minute montage of them wearing beautiful outfits, which obviously is kind of the point of a movie like The Devil Wears Prada.

That's what this movie is.

But I do think it was a bit excessive because I think the bones for like a pretty good story were there and it felt a little too long.